Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director, and this is the Daily D.C.

Thanks so much for listening. Today, we're coming at you from Manchester, New Hampshire,

where CNN is hosting five consecutive presidential town halls tonight. In prime time,

check it out, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. First up, Amy Klobuchar,

Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

From 7 p.m. until midnight, you will see five back-to-backtown halls with leading contenders for the Democratic presidential

nomination. You won't want to miss it. One of those contenders chose today to roll out what may be

the most aggressive, ambitious policy proposal of the campaign to date. And that is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

She unveiled this morning before a town hall that will have college students as its audience,

her plan to eradicate student debt and make college universally free for those that want to attend

two-year or four-year public schools.

It's a hefty plan in terms of price, no doubt.

We'll get to that in a moment.

But I just want to lay out some of the specifics in the plan for you just so that you can get

a sense of the scope of it. Warren's plan would forgive $50,000 in student loans for Americans

in households earning less than $100,000 a year. So according to a Warren campaign analysis of what this would amount to, it would provide

immediate relief to more than 95% of the 45 million Americans with student debt.

Now, not all of those, 45 million, would get 100% relief.

They may owe more than $50,000.

A, B, they may not be all in households earning less than $100,000,

and therefore the amount that's available to them would be less

because it is clearly a policy

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